Vukac Hranić Kosača
| Vukac Hranić | |
|---|---|
| knez (comes, "count") | |
| Spouse(s) | Katarina |
Issue
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| Noble family | Kosača |
| Father | Hran Vuković Kosača |
| Born | second half of the 14th century |
| Died | 1432 |
Vukac Hranić Kosača (Serbian Cyrillic: Вукац Хранић Косача; fl. 1405–died in 1432) was a nobleman with the title of knez in the service of the Kingdom of Bosnia during the reigns of Tvrtko II (r. 1404–1409, first reign), Stephen Ostoja (r. 1409–1418), Stephen Ostojić (r. 1418–1421) and Tvrtko II again (r. 1421–1443), and also the Republic of Ragusa, since 1419.
Vukac was born in the second half of the 14th century, the second son of Hran Vuković Kosača; the younger brother of veliki vojvoda (Grand Duke) of Hum, Sandalj Hranić (l. 1370–1435), and older brother of knez Vuk Hranić (d. 1424). Both Vukac and Vuk were subordinate to their powerful older brother Sandalj, who governed a large independent territory in the Kingdom of Bosnia. Sandalj had succeeded their uncle Vlatko Vuković in 1392.
Vukac held part of his family's hereditary lands in Podrinje (mentioned in 1415), and the region of Govza by the Bistrica river and the town of Jeleč which he was given following the death of his younger brother Vuk in 1425. He married Katarina (d. 1456), whose origin is deemed unknown, in August 1403. With Katarina he had two children, a son, Stjepan, and a daughter, Teodora, who married Radoslav Pavlović (1420–41). Stjepan was since 1419 mentioned in documents alongside his father and uncles as he had already back then been chosen to succeed Sandalj in the future. The Republic of Ragusa granted Sandalj, Vukac, Vuk and Stjepan the status of Ragusan nobility and senators and an estate in Ragusa (Dubrovnik) by charter dated June 29, 1419.
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